The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-14
THE GREAT DISTRIBUTION.
Sermon by Rev. r. De Witt Tai
mage, p. ..
A New Apportionment-7Es Earth 70 Sc
Captured for ChrIst-Heaven to Bs
Shared by the Redeemed and the
unfaf1Se=F1nal Rewards.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. O." Distribution
Of Rewards - was the subject OF DR.. Tai
f6ageis sermon this morning. He chose
for his text q part of the twelfth verse Of
the ffty-third chapter st Isaiah; He
shall divide the spoil with the strong"
Following is the sermon:
My family, who saw it with their eyes
year before last tell me that in the Col
iseum at Rome, where prosecutors used to
| let out half starved lions TO eat up Chris
| tians, there is now planted the figure Of q
| cross And rejoice to know that the up
| right piece of wood nailed to transverse
| p1ece has become the symbol, not more OF
| suffering than of victory. 1t is OF Christ
the Conqueror that my text speaks. AS
| q kiugiy warrior, having subdued an em-
| pite, might divide the palaces, and man
| sions, and cities, and valleys, and mount
aims among his officers; SO Christ IS going
| to divide up all the earth and all the
! heavens among His people, and you and I
! will have to take our share if we are
| strong in faith and streng in our Christian
loyalty, for my text declares It: He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture Of this round planet for
| Christ is not so much of a job as you might
| imagine, when the church takes off its coat
and rolls up its sleeves for the work,
as it will There are $4,000, 100000 peo-
pie now in the world, and there
are 45O,0OO,O0O Christians. Subtract the
$50, 100000 who are Christians from
the 120O0O00O00 and there are, II, ,550,-
OOO, 600 left to be Christianized. Now 6i7ids
the 1850 O0O,00 by the $4,000, 900 already
Christanized, and it makes only twenty
five people for each Christian to bring to
Christi Surely, when the church gets
wide awake, no Christi will be content
to take to Heaven less than twenty
Why, hope to take with me at least To-
600. ! know evangelists that have already
gathered SO, 600 each for the kingdom. There
are at least 900 men in Christendom
whose one business it is to save souls. So
that when tell you all that we need to
average is twenty-five souls reaped for
God in lifetime, all idea of impossibility
vanishes from this omnipotent crusade.
know Of a Sabbath-school teacher who
has spent her lifetime in teaching the
young, and she has had five differefb
classes during all these years, and she tells
me they averaged about seven in class,
and they were all converted, and five times
seven are thirty-fve, as near as can cal
culRte. She brought her twenty-five, and
had ten TO spare. My grandmother
brought her whole family into the king
dom, and her grandchildren, and, / hopej
all her great-grandchildren, for God re-
members a prayer seventy. five years old
as well as. though it were minute; and
she took her twenty-five into the kingdom
and had at least one hundred to spare. Be
sides that, the telegraph and the telephone
will, within a few years, put the whole
earth into compass of ten minutes. Con-
slider this, and also that Omnipotence,
Omniscience and Omnipresence preside
over all the work of@betterment, and you
will take this enterprise Of the worlds re-
demption out of the impossibilities into the
possibilities, and then out of the possibili-
ties into the probabilities and then out Of
the probabilities into the certaintles. The
building of the Union Pacific railroad from
ocean to ocean was a greater undertaking
than the girdling of the earth with the
Gospel, for the one enterprise depended
upon the human arm while the other de-
pends upon Almightiness.
Do. I really mean all the earth will sur
render to Christi Yes. How about the
uninviting portions2 Will Greenland be
evangelical? The possibility is that after
a few more hundred brave lives are dashed
out among the icebergs, that great refrig-
orator, the Polar region, will be given up
to the wa1rus and the bear, and the inhab-
itants will come down by invitation into
tblerable climates; or those climates may
Soften; and, as it has been positively DEM
6nstrated that the Arctic region was onc5
a blooming garden and a fruitful field,
those regions may change climate and
again be blooming garden and a fruitful
field. 1t is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists that the
Arctic regions were the first portions of
this world inhabitable; the world hot be-
yond human endurance, those regions
were of course the first to be cool enough
for human foot and human lung. 1t IS
positively proved that that Arctic region
was tropical climate.
Prof. Heer, of Zurich, says the remains
of flowers have been found In the Arctic,
showing it was like Mexico for climate,
and it is found that the Arctic is the moth
er region from which all the flowers de-
scended. Prof. Wallace says the remains
of all styles Of animal life are found in the
Arctic, including those animals that can
live only in warm climates. Now that
Arctic region which has been demonstrate
ed by fora and fauna and geographical ar
gument to have been as full of vegetation
and life as our Florida, may be turned
back to its original bloom and glory, or it
will be shut up as a museum of crystals for
curiosity once in awhile to VISIT.
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape
will belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or re-
pulsiVe regions9 All the deserts will be ic-
rigated, the waters will be forced up to the
great American desert between here and
the Pacific by machinery now known or yet
to be invented, and, as great Salt Lake
City has no rain and could not raise an
apple or bushel of wheat in one hundred
years without artificial help, but is now
=
all the unproductive parts of all the conti-
nents will be turned into harvest fields and
orchards. A haIf-dozen De Lesseps will
furnish the world with all the canals
needed, and viii change the course Of rivers
and open new lakes, and the great Sahara
desert will be cut up into farms with an
astounding yield of bushels to the acre.
The marsh will be drained Of its waters
and cured of its malaria.
I saw the other day what was for many t
years called the Black Swamp Of Ohio, its |
chief crop chills and fevers, but now, by |
the tiles put in the ground to carry of the |
surplus moisture, transformed into the /
richest and healthiest regions The God /
who wastes nothing, think, means that /
this world, from pole to pole, has come to /
perfection of foliage and fruitage. For that 1
reason He keeps US running through space,
though SO many fires are blazing down in
its timb bers and so many mock terrors have
threatened to dash it to pieces. AS soon as
the earth is completed God will divide il up /
among the good The reason He does not |
divide it now IS because it is not done. A
kind father will not divide an apple among
his children until it is ripe. In fulhllment
of the New Testament promise, 1.-THE meek
shall inherit the earth" and the promise Of
the Old Testament, aHe shall divide the
spoil with the strong" the world will be
appOrtioned to those worthy 70 possess it.
1t is not so now. In this country, capa-
pie OF holding, feeding, cfothing and shelter
ing 1,200, 900, 900 people, and where we have
only 100000 900 inhabitants, we have 2,OO0,-
600 that are unable to get honest work and,
with their families, an aggregation Of
70, 100000 that are on the verge Of starva-
ton Something wrong, most certainly.
In some way there viii be a new appor-
uonment. Many of the millionaire estates
viii crack to pieces on the dissipations Of
grandchildren, and then dissolve into
the possession Of the masses who now
have an insufaeiency
What vof4 say xraf1 ta~or,o - ~. - |